Religion

08/17/2010

Ground Zero mosque controversy grows, Democrats plummet in polls

Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010 2:20 p.m.

By David A. Patten

With just 78 days before the midterm elections, Republicans have seized an all-time record lead in generic party preference — a clear signal that Democrats are running out of time to resolve the ground zero mosque controversy and get back on message if they hope to avoid a political train wreck in November.

'10,000' throng to stop Ground Zero mosque

Group vows to sue federal government: '3,000 good Americans didn't die in vain'

Posted: June 7, 20108:56 pm Eastern

As many as 10,000 protesters from across the country – including family members who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001 – took to the streets in New York City Sunday to fight construction of a 13-story Islamic mosque to be built just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terroristsmurdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah.

Now the organizers plan to sue the federal government to designate the site as a war memorial.

05/14/2010

Despite crediting the Pakistani Taliban with fostering the recent failed car bombing in Times Square, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was reluctant Thursday to say radical Islam was part of the cause of that and other recent attacks.

Mr. Holder, testifying to the House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly balked at a half-dozen questions from Rep. Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican on the committee, about whether "radical Islam" was behind the attempted car bombing, last year's so-called "underpants bomber" or the killings at Fort Hood in Texas.

11/27/2009

A number of years ago I was attending an interreligious symposium at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. on the topic of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. At dinner I had a very interesting conversation with one of the Jesuit presenters about their observatory in Rome. I remember asking him what they were looking for in the heavens and him responding that among many things they were seeking signs of intelligent life in outer space. His answer fascinated me and caused me to reflect on the possibility of extraterrestrial life and how it would fit into our Judeo-Christian history of salvation. I thought that the discovery of intelligent non-human life would have a great impact on all religions and their theological constructs.

CNSNEWS.COM

The U.S. Catholic bishops have told the pastors of all the Catholic churches in America to insert a flyer in their church bulletin and read a statement at every Mass, informing their congregations that the health care bills now before Congress allow abortion-funding and must be opposed unless amended to specifically prohibit such funding.